Oeke Hoogendijk: Housewitz

One of the best European authors, Oeke Hoogendijk, whose three masterful films on art seen from unexpected and exciting angles we saw at “The Magnificent Seven”, this time turns to a very personal subject in a Kammerspiel style to create one of her most interesting works.

This is a film about the author’s mother, but also about long journeys on virtual trains that look like a dream and a nightmare, which combine calmness and unending suffering. During the filming, the mother suddenly said that the camera was too intrusive for her and that the film could only be shot with a web camera, with a great comment of a documentary filmmaker – “It will give you a true picture!” Thus, in a combination of different views, this portrait of a charismatic woman is created, most often alone with a cat in her apartment, trapped for years by agoraphobia. Ranging from black comedy and unusual film of independent production, to studious close-ups and shots of the television screen set as a specific leitmotif of the film, we discover a lively and dynamic personality, sensitive, intelligent, witty and self-contained. Her dialogue with the world is always intense and often ironic or self-ironic, whether she is talking to her daughter or commenting on a television program or on herself, sometimes with wittily worded curses. With a lot of emotions, we also discover her past, when as a young Jewish woman she went through the horrors of the Holocaust. In an exciting way, the present and the past which never passes, come together in front of us. This woman with an inquisitive spirit, although closed, constantly travels the world thanks to television, staring at dreamlike images of trains and rails, dynamic visual symbols of movement, but also sinister associative images of the Holocaust.

An exceptional achievement in which the universal and the personal intertwine in a unique way, building a metaphor about suffering within the invisible wires of “Auschwitz” in one’s own house.

Netherlands, 2021, 71 mins.

Melanie Liebheit and Gereon Wetzel: She Chef

This text is written by festival directors of the Magnificent7 Festival in Belgrade. Svetlana and Zoran Popovic:

Germany, Austria 2022 
105 minutes 
directed by: Melanie Liebheit and Gereon Wetzel

Screened at the most important festivals, this enchanting documentary is a fantastic journey through Europe and the elite spaces of contemporary cuisine. For Gereon Wetzel, co-author of the film, this journey begins ten years ago with his entry into a cult restaurant in Spain and his great film “El Bulli – Cooking in Process”.

The main character, an unusual girl named Agnes, is remarkable as she is the winner of a world cooking competition, but even more so because she wants to improve her knowledge and skills to the highest level. She sets herself the task of a search that takes her to the kitchens of some of the most prestigious restaurants in Europe. Both when she observes from the sidelines as an apprentice and when she passionately participates in the process in these exclusive kitchens, she equally concentrates and intensively re-examines her own professional choices. At the same time, in an exciting way, it becomes an increasingly present search for knowing oneself and discovering the meaning of one’s life. So, not by chance, guided by deep inner currents, this search finally brings us to one of the most unusual restaurants in the world, which is located in surreally beautiful, dream-like landscapes in the north of Europe. Brilliant discreet observers, Melanie Liebheit and Gereon Wetzel, gradually introduce us to the process of fantastic transformation, creating an extremely exciting film finale that enchants us with beauty and hope.

A visually fascinating entry into the exciting processes of different cuisines shaped by the skills of Europe’s best chefs, but above all, a film about maturing and discovering yourself.

Magnificent7 Welcome to Belgrade

Riga, very early morning. Because of crutch – pain, waiting for a hip replacement – chair-assistance in the airport and help from co-tutor at the Baltic Sea Docs, editor Phil Jandaly, who was on his way to another workshop.

One day in Copenhagen in the allotment garden (Danish kolonihave, German Schrebergarten) and then my wife and I went for Belgrade, for the 19th edition of Magnificent7, a unique festival in its format: 7 films, 7 days and a formidable hospitality from the side of the festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic. That started already when we were met by – as always – Ema, who this year is helped by Katarina. They took us to the hotel and provided us with “survival kits”… biscuits in many different versions, juice, water, tissues – absolutely needed as it is hot in Belgrade.

Just had breakfast in the fine hotel that is 5 minutes from the cinema MTS Dvorana, where the opening film “All Men Become Brothers” by Robert Kirchhoff will be screened at 8pm. One of my heroes, Alexander Dubcek, is the one Kirchhoff describes – here is my intro to a review I wrote on filmkommentaren.dk, a scene that is not in the film: …I am sure many of you remember the iconic moment from  November 1989, when Vaclav Havel and Alexander Dubcek stand on a balcony in the Wenceslas Square in Prague being welcomed enthusiastically by hundreds of thousands. It was the days of the Velvet revolution and the hero of 1968 and the hero of 1989 were there together. I get tears in my eyes whenever I see that clip with Dubcek with embracing the crowd with his arms…

Anyway, the film is here and it is a great film, another quote: …  Thanks to Slovak Robert Kirchhoff there is now a detailed, well composed cinematic essay, a huge work that has taken him years of research and contemplation on how to tell the story about the man, who wanted “socialism with a human face”.

The festival has a focus on directors, several of them arrive today and stay to watch the films of their colleagues. They will not regret to be at this totally non-commercial festival with no industry event attached. For me coming from an excellent Baltic Sea Docs that dealt with film projects in progress and development a perfect change to film watching together with an audience.

https://magnificent7festival.org/en/

Magnificent7 Festival Belgrade

All Men Become Brothers

It´s not easy. The selection of 7 films. For a good and a bad reason. The good is that today so many good documentaries are available in Belgrade. It was not like that 19 years ago, when the first edition of Magnificent7 took off. Today there are several festivals that show documentaries in the city and television also programs creative documentaries. My colleagues, the festival directors Svetlana and Zoran Popovic have mentioned that several documentaries from M7 have now been broadcasted. So there are many options for the Belgraders, also the platforms for home screenings. The bad reason, no, continue reading:

For we have made a fine selection also for this year. For what are M7 looking for… the same as always – films with a subject that is relevant for an audience that demands to to be treated with special care and attention, and with a focus on artistic quality. With a special look on us human beings and the way we behave and treat each other.

I am happy and proud on behalf of the festival that the opening film is “All Men Become Brothers” about Alexander Dubcek, the legendary Slovak politician, who presented his politically democratic ambition for “socialism with a human face”. In 1968, the Prague Spring it was named, that was crushed by military invention from the Warsaw countries led by USSR. It is a great film and I dare say an important message to send also today, the humanistic approach.

The same goes for the two Nordic documentaries in the program. “Vintersaga” by Carl Olsson, who was here before with “Patrimonium”, portraying Swedish people in situations that sometimes are conveyed full of irony, sometimes “just” a pure homage to how we are, good and bad. In “Mr. Graversen” the son Michael returns to his childhood home and reaches to – with warmth, love and understanding – help his parents to come back to the life they once had. 

The same theme comes up in “Housewitz”, where Dutch Oeke Hoogendijk does what she can to make her old mother, a holocaust survivor, live a decent life, in a film full of light and dark tones. And Love.

You can also love food, as the one who writes these lines does, and if you are financially unable to visit a Michelin restaurant you can watch “She Chef” by Melanie Liebheit and Gereon Wetzel, who were here before with the film on El Buli, a culinaric uhmm pleasure on screen with Agnes as the chef, who grows in the hierarchy, could have stayed in the big établissements but preferred “the human face” in a small restaurant in the Faroese Islands.

Climate and the way we treat the nature with an “inhuman face” is indirectly, what is the theme of the most surprising film of the 2023 edition – “A Year in the Field” by British Christopher Morris, who in an interview in Guardian said “I’ve never strapped myself to a tree, never even been on a protest march. That’s not in my nature, that’s not me. But standing quietly in a field, a sort of one-man direct action seemed kind of appealing to me.” And to the audience, it’s actually a very political film!

And finally ”Meine Schweizer Armee” by Luka Popadić, a film that we have discussed with Luka in several meetings at M7, me first time saying “… oh you have an army in Switzerland!”, they have and Luka is there and have made with respect a film, where he also talks to his fellow soldiers about “what is your homeland”, not being born in Switzerland, looking for your identity in other words, with respect. Podapic arrives in (?) his homeland with three officers “with a human face”.

Can’t wait to be back in Belgrade!

Tue Steen Müller

Skopje

August 22 2023

European Film Academy Shortlists 14 Documentaries

Press release of today:

”With 14 powerful feature-length documentary films the European Film Academy is presenting a strong Documentary Film Selection for the European Film Awards 2023. The Academy has revealed the titles today. A committee consisting of a diverse range of invited European experts has chosen these 14 productions that have been recommended for nomination for the European Film Awards 2023. The European Film Awards, honouring the greatest achievements in European cinema, will be presented on 9 December in Berlin.

With 16 European countries represented – both EU and non-EU – the selection demonstrates the great diversity in European cinema.

Please find the list of all selected documentaries here as well as further information on all films including synopsis, cast, credits, and statements of directors (if available).

Eligible for the European Film Awards are European documentaries which, among other criteria, had their first official screening between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023 and have a European director*. Additional titles of documentary films premiering at summer festivals might be added and announced in September…”

In the coming weeks, the 4,600 members of the European Film Academy will start to watch the selected films and after the final announcement of all films vote on the nominations in the category ‘European Documentary’. Based on the votes of all members, the nominations will be made public on 7 November 2023. The members of the European Film Academy will then vote for the winner who will be announced at the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin on 9 December 2023.

Favourites? My guess is ”Apolonia,Apolonia” by Lea Glob, “On the Adamant” by Nicolas Philibert, “We Will not Fade Away” by Alisa Kovalenko, “Our Body” by Claire Simon but there are also cph:dox winner “Motherland” by Hanna Badziaka, Alexander Mihalkovich and MakeDOX winner “Between Revolutions” by Vlad Petri or DocsBarcelona winner “Who I am not” by Tunde Skovran. Click above and get them all.

MakeDox Goodbye

I am sitting in the lobby of the Bushi Hotel, which, with all its corridors and many rooms, has been a nice escape spot from the heat outside after long workshop days, a few outdoor screenings, meals in the bazaar and on the big square with Alexander the Great statue in the middle.

”Kurshumli an” is the name of the outdoor cinema, where the audience gathers at 9pm in the evening in front of a big screen with a superb projection. And there is a huge audience, many of them stays for the second screening as well, at 11pm. It’s scheduled for 300 but there are more and there is space enough. As two nights before where the festival director Petra Seliskar’s new fim “Body” was to be screened. I came to greet Petra and her protagonist, did not want to see the film again as I had already watched it in Sarajevo the week before. A very good film full of passion and warmth circling around Urška Ristić, the woman – an understatement – who has gone through so much trouble with illness in her body but survived due to her will and strength. And Lust for Life.

The screening started after some crazy moments during a short film before “Body”. Dogs are also in the audience and Petra and her family has a wonderful collie, who is running around being welcomed by everyone. Except for a unwanted stray dog, was it a cane Corso or ?, who suddenly entered and ran directly towards the collie to attack. Lots of fight of barking sounds, Petra’s family in action getting the aggressor out and consoling their own dog. Not nice, I needed another raki. And the dog water and carressing.

I could have needed one (a raki) as well the next day, where a pitching forum took place at MKC, a youth center. 11 projects were pitched, I had some moments where I fell asleep because of the heat, no ac in the room, but maybe also because of the quality of the projects, where most of them were at a “very very early” stage, so would it not have been better to wait with the pitch? Except for Hanis Bagashov’s “I Don’t Want” that I knew from a workshop last year – he has a feeling for cinema – and the Kosovo project “Adelina” by Aurela Berila with Eroll Bilibani I did not find any obvious talent in the trailers. You can find more on the projects on the website of the festival: http://makedox.mk

And then last night at the cinema I was sitting with dear friends from Georgia, Mariam Chacia and Nik Voigt, whose film “Magic Mountain” will be screened tonight, to watch and enjoy Nicolas Philibert’s masterpiece “On the Adamant”. The place where people – patients and doctors and therapists et al. meet – to talk, engage themselves in creative matters, writing, painting, composing, playing music, singing, talking about football – being there to be with other people, to escape loneliness. To be alive, “to live, to give” as Neil Young has been singing. It was an extraordinary film to watch and to talk about over a nice dinner in the bazaar. And the conversation continued today at lunch with Serge Tréfaut, the French/Portuguese director, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, where his last documentary “Paraiso” is filmed. An extraordinary homage to human life at an old age.

THANKS MakeDox to give so much.

MakeDox: Main Program

It is a very competent and exciting selection the North (!) Macedonian festival in Skopje, edition number 14, offers its audience in 3 outdoor screening venues. Screenings start after the 9.15 calls from the minarets in the city. And the audience is big. The weather is of course a dangerous player under these circumstances but this year it treats the festival well. Last year I remember that the masterpiece “Nelly and Nadine” by Swedish Magnus Gertten, edited by Danish Jesper Osmund – who performs here at an editing workshop with me on the sideline – was screened long after midnight because of heavy rain…

Back to the main program that includes the emotionally beautiful “Eternal Memory” by Chilean Maite Alberdi (photo of her on top of this page), the two films by Serbian Mila Turajlic with and about the late cinematographer Labutovic, who was the cameraman of Tito, followed him around and was sent by him to Algeria to follow and support the Algerian Liberation Front in their fight against the French to obtain independence – they got it in 1962. Both of these films are shown today, the 20th, whereas the festival director Petra Seliskar’s wonderful “Body”, that was also at the Sarajevo FF last week is on tomorrow. And then on the 22nd I will be in the plastic chair in Kurshumli An to enjoy master Nicolas Philibert’s new film “On the Adamant”.

I mentioned a handful, I could have gone on with other sections, check the www.makedox.mk

Aleksandar Reljic: Mamula All Inclusive

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Mamula… never heard about it, and I was not the only one in the over-full cinema hall 2 in Cineplex at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Now I do thanks to the fine film of Aleksandar Reljic. That was presented today as part of the Dealing With the Past section. At the Q&A after the film, that was received with strong applause, Rejlic told the audience that his interest in making the film came, when Daliborka Uljarevic from Montenegro presented the story in 2017 at the True Story Market at the Sarajevo FF. He met his good friend Dragan Gmizić, who said you have to make that film and who was able to raise some small funding to start the shooting that lasted until today.

The Q&A with the three mentioned, and with me on the side as moderator, raised many interesting comments and positive reactions. There was a big Bravo directed several times to Leila Dedic from Al Jazeera Balkans for the financial support, which also brought Croatian Robert Zuber to comment on the poor support situation of the public broadcasters in the region – Robert being an active producer and director and now also a festival director – and the leading character of the True Stories Market, from where “Mamula” came.

The film has several layers but what I would like to highlight is that it (also) is a tribute to an old war veteran Ivo Markovic, who passed away a couple of years ago. To see him visually described by Reljic, coming year after year came to commemorate the victory over the Italian occupation in WW2 is moving, a strong man fighting his way up the stairs to the fortress. insisting to call Mamula what it was, a camp and not a prison as another veteran wanted. The family of Ivo Markovic was present at the premiere.

Daliborka Uljarevic told the audience that the film will be shown in Montenegro and will raise strong debate in the polarized country that now has a modern hotel and restaurant on the island… I am not going to eat in a place, where human beings, children and grown-ups, have been starving and tortured…

Serbia, 2023, 58 mins.

  

 

 

 

 

 

Sarajevo FF CineLink Industry focus on Docs

partnerships with Balkan Documentary Center, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and Documentary Campus which provide fresh vigor and the potential to promote documentary filmmakers. Given Sarajevo’s reputation for curated projects and the caliber of guests we attract, CineLink’s documentary activities create a space to be recognised. Here, those with a distinct outlook – who may not tread the conventional market path, like a HONEYLAND (two times Ocars nominated film in 2019) – find their voices amplified, which is why CineLink Industry Days diverge from the contours of the ordinary documentary market. Through three sections, CineLink Work in Progress, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, and Docu Talents from the East, Cinelink Industry Days present 15 projects in production or post-production stages.

Participants are offered chances to secure coveted prizes, promising networking, collaboration, and valuable takeaways. Docu Rough Cut Boutique projects vie for awards, including the Avanpost Award (€20,000 post-production services), CAT&Docs Award (€2,000), HBO Max Award (€2,000), DOK Leipzig Preview Award (invitation to present at DOK Leipzig 2023), AJB DOC Award (€2,000), and East Silver Caravan Award (€3,500 distribution service). The CineLink Work in Progress program offers opportunities for two esteemed awards: the Post Republic Award (€30,000 in-kind support) and the Turkish National Radio Television Award (€25,000 cash prize). In 2023 CineLink Industry Days introduced the inaugural CineLink Impact Award by Think-Film Impact Production. This award is open to post-production phase projects actively participating in CineLink Work-in-Progress or Docu Rough Cut Boutique. Its aim is comprehensive impact campaign support for the most promising project, offering €20,000 in-kind consultation services. In the Docu Talents from the East program, promising projects compete for the Current Time TV Docu Talent Award ($5,000) and Doc Alliance Distribution Award (€3,000 in-kind support).

An overview of documentary projects presented at CineLink Industry Days:

CineLink Work in Progress:

SUSPENDED: DIARIES FROM LEBANON / LB, FR
Director: Myriam El Hajj
Production companies: Abbout Productions, Gogogo Films

Using weapons, voting booths, or revolting in the streets of Beirut. These are the choices of GEORGES, JOUMANA, and PERLA: three intersecting destinies, three generations, and the same desire to change a sick country, Lebanon. As various crises unfold, they face a dilemma: Save the world or save themselves?

THE SINNER AND THE SAINT / BG
Director: Boris Despodov
Production company: Arthouse Blockbusters

While searching for the Light, he was drawn into the Darkness.

Docu Rough Cut Boutique:

ADELINA: SYMPHONY OF LONGING AND ESTRANGEMENT / GE
Director: Rati Tsiteladze
Production company: ArtWay Film

It is an intimate journey into the world and minds of two lost souls, mother and daughter, who have become outcasts, one in the centre of Europe and the other in a tiny village in Georgia.

ALICE ON&OFF / RO
Director: Isabela von Tent
Production company: Luna Film

How to teach someone to love if no one has taught you?

DAD´S LULLABY / UA, RO
Director: Lesia Diak
Production company: FilmWays, DramaFree
Co-production company: FilmWays, DramaFree, Delirium Films

SERHIY fought for his country in the Russian-Ukrainian war, but now he needs to fight his family. A film about the aftermath of war.

PAVILLON 6 / HR
Director: Goran Dević
Production company: 15th Art Productions Intimate conversations in the vaccination line.

YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME / HU, SE
Director: Anna Rubi
Production company: Somnus Film
Co-production company: Cinenic Film

For their children to survive, a group of elderly mothers must fight the state.

Docu Talents from the East program

AN ALMOST PERFECT FAMILY / RO
Director: Tudor Platon
Production company: microFILM

After 30 years of marriage, my parents told me they were separating. I fell in love and started my own family during this painful process. The film explores the different shapes that love can take between parents and children and children who become parents.

80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS / HU, DE
Directors: András Földes, Anna Kiss
Production company: Filmdough

Viktor Orbán’s government seizes Hungary’s top independent media outlet, Index.hu. Journalists fight back by re-signing and forming a new entity but face familiar toxicity. Can healthy communities survive in a corrupt system? Possible answers are revealed through the lives of three ex-Index.hu employees as they navigate challenges.

CHRONICLE / SK, CZ
Director: Martin Kollar
Production company: Punkchart films
Co-production company: Somatic Films

A documentary observation essay creates a portrayal of ir- retrievably disappearing realities.

DREAMING OF EL DORADO / HR
Director: Alan Stanković
Production company: Studio devet d.o.o.
Co-production company: Event Film Ltd

A film about a young girl FATIMA ZAHRO from Senegal, who took her destiny into her own hands and decided to move to Croatia.

HAVEL SPEAKING, CAN YOU HEAR ME? / CZ
Director: Petr Jančárek
Production company: Endorfilm

Leaving and the ever-necessary presence of the playwright, prisoner of conscience, citizen, statesman and shy director of his own life.

A PICTURE TO REMEMBER / UA, FR, DE
Director: Olga Chernykh
Co-production companies: Reinvent Studios, Promenades Films

Thrown into the void of an unknown future, the director and film narrator dives into a kaleidoscope of memories and chronicles her personal and collective familial search for something to hold on to amid turbulent times.

RUNA / PL
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Production company: Chilli Productions
Co-production company: Real Lava

After her mom’s tragic death on the Polish-Belarussian border, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl, RUNA, has to become a mother to her four younger brothers as the family deals with trauma and tries to establish a new life in Europe.

ROOT / BA, TR
Director and producer: Deniz Čelebić Co-producer: Yeliz Čelebić
Production company: Kapiya Production

As the diary of a woman who carries ancestral memory of displacement from home because of the war, the documentary ROOT shows her journey of becoming rooted through the garden she cultivated on the land of the Other.

CineLink Industry has steadily evolved over the years into a home and thriving hub for documentary professionals. This year’s 29th Sarajevo Film Festival will feature an extensive lineup of documentary-focused activities with a focus on captivating storytelling. From deeply personal stories to global issues that demand attention, the selected films are a testament to the power of visual storytelling. The diverse range of documentaries explores various themes, shedding light on the human experience and the world we inhabit.

CineLink’s journey in supporting filmmakers began 21 years ago, primarily focused on providing assistance to fictional films. However, over time, our path has evolved and expanded. Central to this change are our strategic 

Sarajevo FF Docu Talents from the East 2023

Docu Talents from the East – the closely watched presentation of the most remarkable documentary films in post-production from Central and Eastern Europe will take place on August 13 at Sarajevo FF. 

Eight new creative documentary projects will be presented as part CineLink Industry Day on August 13, the presentation will take place at Hotel Europe – Atrium from 14.30 – 15.45. The award ceremony will take place on the same day at Sarajevo Producers’ Hub / Manifesto Gallery starting at 21.30.

The most promising project will receive the Docu Talent Award in co-operation with Current Time TV. The award is accompanied by a cash prize in the amount of 5,000 USD. The DAFilms.com Distribution Award will  cover services in the amount of €3000 inculding international VOD release on DAFilms.com for two years.

“One for all, or one against all? The protagonists of the presented films are exploring their family roots and cultural background, striving for a fairer and more open world, and trying to secure their own place in it – often in spite of global and political influences. The films in  progress, in which they appear, thus closely and often mercilessly depict the world in which we live and which we are shaping together. In line with tradition, Docu Talents from the East presents formally diverse and thematically significant documentary films at the completion stage made by prominent filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe“, says Marek Hovorka, director of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which has organised and curated the Docu Talents since 2005.

In the last 19 years, Docu Talents have served as a launchpad for documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe. Below is the selection of this year’s most remarkable documentary projects from the region:

HAVEL SPEAKING, CAN YOU HEAR ME?

Czech Republic | 90’
Director: Petr Jančárek
Producer: Jiří Konečný
Production Company: Endorfilm
 
Leaving. And the ever-necessary presence of the playwright, prisoner of conscience, citizen, statesman
and a shy director of his own life.
 
ROOT
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Turkey | USA | 50’
Director: Deniz Čelebić
Producer: Deniz Čelebić
Production Company: Kapiya Production
 
As the diary of a woman who carries ancestral memory of displacement from home because of the war,
the documentary Root shows her journey of becoming rooted through the garden she cultivated on the
land of the Other.
 
DREAMING OF EL DORADO
Croatia | 60’
Director: Alan Stanković
Producer: Boris Veličan
Production Company: Event Film Ltd.
 
Film about a young girl Fatima Zahro from Senegal who took her destiny into her own hands and decided
to move to Croatia.
 
80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS
Hungary | Germany | 80’
Directors: András Földes and Anna Kis
Producer: Loránd Balázs Imre
Production Company: filmDOUGH
 
Viktor Orbán’s government seizes Hungary’s top independent media outlet, Index.hu. Journalists fight back by resigning and forming a new entity but face familiar toxicity. Can healthy communities survive in a corrupt system? Possible answers are revealed through the lives of three ex-Index.hu employees as they navigate challenges.

RUNA
Poland | 82’
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Producers: Zofia Kujawska and Agnieszka Zwiefka
Production Company: Chilli Productions
 
After her mom’s tragic death on the Polish-Belarussian border, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers as the family deals with trauma and tries to establish a new life in Europe.

AN ALMOST PERFECT FAMILY
Romania | 90’
Director: Tudor Platon
Producers: Carla Fotea and Ada Solomon
Production Company: microFILM
 
After 30 years of marriage, my parents announced to me that they were separating. In the midst of this painful process, I was falling in love and starting my own family. The film explores the different shapes that love can take between parents and children and children who become parents.
 
CHRONICLE
Slovakia | Czech Republic | 70’
Director: Martin Kollar
Producers: Ivan Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský and Katarína Tomková
Production company: Punkchart films
 
A documentary observation essay creating a portrayal of irretrievably disappearing realities.
 
A PICTURE TO REMEMBER 
Ukraine | France | Germany | 70’
Director: Olga Chernykh
Producer: Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon
Production Company: Real Pictures LLC
 
A Picture to Remember is an essayistic account of a family’s long journey through the war. It chronicles the search for a way to handle terrible and recurring losses experienced by three generations of Ukrainian women – those of the director, her mother, and of her grandmother.

The programme is held as part of the Visegrad Accelerator supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

MORE INFORMATION:  https://www.ji-hlava.com/docu-talents